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Summary

Gives hosts a structured record of what a forwarded MCP call did, and finishes the host-facing follow-ups to #39:

  • Call outcome: mcp_call_tool attaches a McpCallOutcome (kind: "mcp_call", server, tool, ok, optional error { code, unauthorized, advertises_oauth }) to ToolResult.metadata.
    • It is attached on success, on a registry error, and on argument errors once the server and tool are known.
    • It survives scrub_result. server and tool are the caller's names, unscrubbed: the outcome is host-only and never rendered.
    • Decoding enforces kind == "mcp_call" and that ok agrees with error (ok: true has none, ok: false has one), and McpCallError rejects advertises_oauth without unauthorized. The serialized shape is unchanged.
    • A host reads it with McpCallOutcome::from_metadata instead of parsing the rendered text. OpenHuman already forwards metadata that carries a kind key as the structured part of a completed tool call.
  • OAuth: OAuthBundle is public; its Debug redacts the refresh token and client secret. OAuthFlow::refresh re-applies the public-endpoint guard when require_public_endpoints() is set; the free refresh_if_expired stays. A refresh with no refresh token sends nothing. A refresh drops its result when a newer sign-in replaced the stored bundle while the token endpoint was answering (best effort: the store has no compare-and-swap). OAuthFlow::with_client_name lets the host set the client_name sent during dynamic registration, which the authorization server shows on its consent screen; DEFAULT_CLIENT_NAME (TinyMCP) stays the default.
  • mcp.json host extension: config_doc::parse_with(doc, &ParseOptions { host_fields, lenient }) returns a ParseReport { declared, rejected }, and render_declared writes Declared entries back out. Declared gains allowed_tools, disallowed_tools, timeout_secs and host_fields. Strict parse and render are unchanged.
  • SecretScrubber's Debug prints counts only. with_secrets redacts host-supplied secrets as strict credentials: as typed and URL-encoded, anywhere in the text, even when short.
  • The bridge strips backticks and asterisks from either end of server and tool identifiers, and sentence punctuation only when it follows one of them. _, . and every other character reach the server as typed (get_data_, __init, v1. are unchanged).

Related issue

Closes #40

API or behavior changes

Additive. CONTRACT_VERSION moves from (1, 2) to (1, 3) for the new public bus members (MCP_CALL_RESULT_KIND, McpCallOutcome, McpCallError); the 1.3 entry also records #39's CREDENTIAL_STORE error name. #39 chose not to bump for that name alone, because only a host's own store raises it. This bump comes from the new payload types.

Behaviour changes for callers:

  • ok: true means the server answered, including when the remote tool returned isError.
  • A call missing arguments, a server or a tool, or refused by the act gate, is still an Err with no metadata.
  • Identifier handling is narrower than first drafted: _ and trailing punctuation outside a fence are no longer stripped.
  • tinymcp::McpAuthChallenge stays re-exported at the crate root.
  • Declared gained four public fields. A struct literal outside the crate needs them; OpenHuman and OpenCompany build none.

No version bump in this PR; the release is a separate step.

Validation

Commands actually run, with their outcome (stable 1.99.0, as CI):

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: clean (also clean with default features)
  • cargo build --all-targets --all-features: clean
  • cargo test --all-features and cargo test: all pass, 0 failed

Also run:

  • cargo llvm-cov with .github/scripts/check-file-coverage.sh 90: passes, every touched file at 92.8% or more.
  • Built against OpenCompany's tree with this branch vendored: cargo check -p opencompany-core --features openhuman,mcp,composio,acp, zero errors.

Tests

  • tools/bridge_outcome_tests.rs covers outcome metadata on success, on ToolNotAllowed, on Unauthorized with and without resource metadata, on an unknown server and on a transport error, and checks that it survives scrub_result.
  • Bus serde round-trip, the kind constant, and CONTRACT_VERSION / is_compatible at 1.3.
  • config_doc/mod_parse_with_tests.rs covers strict vs lenient parsing, registered vs unregistered host fields, and the render round-trip.
  • oauth/mod_tests.rs checks the registered client_name: the default, a host-set name (trimmed), and a blank name keeping the default.
  • oauth/mod_refresh_tests.rs covers OAuthFlow::refresh with the guard on and off, plus OAuthBundle serde.
  • with_secrets redaction, including short secrets inside larger text, and the fence stripping, including get_data_, __init, _docs_ and docs. kept as typed.
  • Outcome decoding rejects a wrong or missing kind and an ok/error mismatch; OAuthBundle Debug hides its secrets; a refresh superseded by a newer sign-in writes nothing; the crate-root re-exports resolve to the bus types (tests/public_reexports.rs).

Documentation

README.md, crates/tinymcp-bus/README.md and ROADMAP.md describe the call outcome kind and the mcp.json host extension.

Checklist

  • The change is focused on one logical change
  • No new #[allow(...)], #[ignore], or relaxed lints
  • No secrets, tokens, or .env contents in the diff or the description

…umansai#40)

Adds MCP_CALL_RESULT_KIND, McpCallOutcome and McpCallError to the
contract crate so a host can read what a forwarded mcp_call_tool call
did (server, tool, whether it was answered, the classified error) from
the result's metadata instead of parsing the rendered text.

CONTRACT_VERSION moves from 1.2 to 1.3. The previous change chose not
to bump for the CREDENTIAL_STORE error name because only a host's own
store raises it; this bump is driven by the new public payload members,
which are additive, and the 1.3 entry records both.
…ansai#40)

Once the server and tool are known, every result McpCallTool returns
carries a serialized McpCallOutcome in ToolResult.metadata: answered on
success, and on a registry error or an arguments refusal the error's
wire name plus whether it was a 401 that advertised OAuth.

The metadata is host-only and is set after scrub_result, so it survives
scrubbing and never reaches the model-facing rendering. Hosts that
forward metadata carrying a "kind" key (OpenHuman's tool outcome
capture) receive it as structured completion data, which is what lets
a host meter answered calls and surface failures without parsing text.
…sai#40)

Models answering in prose wrap server and tool names in markdown
(`docs`, *docs*, docs.), which made the registry lookup miss and
surfaced "unknown mcp server `docs``". The bridge now trims leading
backtick/asterisk/underscore and trailing fence or punctuation
characters, matching the OpenCompany wrapper this replaces, and still
refuses a value that is nothing but fences.
A host that keeps a server's credential in its own secret store, rather
than in the McpServerConfig the scrubber is built from, can now add
those values so they are redacted from bridge output too. Extra values
are matched as typed and URL-encoded, blanks are skipped, and the
combined list stays sorted longest first.
…umansai#40)

OAuthBundle is now public and re-exported from registry::oauth (and
registry), so a host keeping credentials in its own store can read the
bundle it holds without restating its shape. Its wire form is pinned.

OAuthFlow::refresh runs the same refresh as the free
refresh_if_expired, but when require_public_endpoints() is set it
re-checks the bundle's token endpoint and posts over a client pinned to
the vetted addresses. The free function previously documented that it
skips the check because it only posts to an endpoint begin() checked;
that assumption does not hold for a bundle written by an older build or
edited in a host's store. refresh_if_expired is kept unchanged and now
shares the due-check and exchange with the flow method.
…humansai#40)

A host that keeps MCP declarations in its own store (OpenCompany's
company mcp.json and console document) needs the same Claude-shaped
document reader without the install store's limits.

Declared gains allowed_tools, disallowed_tools, timeout_secs and
host_fields. parse_with(doc, &ParseOptions { host_fields, lenient })
reads allowedTools, disallowedTools and timeoutSecs, carries the
host's registered fields verbatim, refuses two keys that trim to one
name, and in lenient mode drops refused entries into
ParseReport::rejected instead of refusing the document. An unreadable
root is still refused. render_declared writes declarations back, never
emitting credentials.

The strict parse used by apply_config_doc is unchanged and keeps
refusing the extension fields, since the install store has no columns
for them and accepting them there would drop them silently. render
(the store projection) is unchanged for the same reason.

Adding fields to Declared breaks struct-literal construction in hosts.
…humansai#40)

README covers the mcp_call outcome a host reads from bridge results,
fence stripping, SecretScrubber::with_secrets, parse_with and
render_declared, and the guarded OAuthFlow::refresh. ROADMAP lists
them as shipped.
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Tiny Sweeper review

Review complete across the current revision of "feat: structured MCP call outcome, guarded OAuth refresh and mcp.json host extension (#40)". Lanes report that all eight earlier findings are resolved and no new findings were raised, though critique and security lanes still list a few unresolved findings in their lane output; no end-to-end harness exists in the repository.

State: Ready for maintainer review
Priority: medium
Reviewed head: 8b92a99c8e59
Updated: 1791291356 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface Files Review signal Count
Production 16 Active findings 2
Tests 9 Noted findings 0
Documentation 3 Resolved findings 39
Configuration 0 Pending checks/questions 0

Completeness: Complete
Test assessment: Test coverage is assessed from changed tests and lane evidence; execution is not claimed without trusted check data.

What changed

This revision adds a structured call outcome to the MCP bridge, a guarded OAuth refresh on the flow, and an extended mcp.json read/write path for hosts with their own store. The bridge's `McpCallTool` now attaches an `McpCallOutcome` (tagged `MCP_CALL_RESULT_KIND`) to every result metadata once the act gate allows a call that names a server, tool and `arguments`, reporting ok/failed with a classified `McpCallError`; identifier arguments are trimmed of model-added markdown fencing while `_`, `.` and trailing punctuation on bare names are kept. The contract version bumps to 1.3. `config_doc` gains `parse_with`/`render_declared` with `ParseOptions` (host fields, leniency) and extension fields `allowedTools`, `disallowedTools`, `timeoutSecs`, while `parse` keeps refusing them. `OAuthBundle` is made public with a redacting Debug; `OAuthFlow::refresh` re-checks the token endpoint under `require_public_endpoints()` and a supersession check prevents overwriting a newer sign-in. `SecretScrubber::with_secrets` adds host-held secrets as strict credentials.

Features

  • Added — Guarded OAuth flow refresh and public OAuthBundle: `OAuthFlow::refresh` mints a new access token when the stored one is due, and under `require_public_endpoints()` re-checks the bundle's token endpoint and posts over a client pinned to the checked addresses, so a bundle stored by an older build or edited in a host's store cannot aim a refresh at an internal address. A supersession check drops a refresh whose stored bundle was replaced by a newer sign-in while the token endpoint was answering. `OAuthBundle` is now public with fields for refresh token, client id/secret, token endpoint and expiry, and its hand-written Debug redacts the secrets. (crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/flow.rs#impl OAuthFlow {, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/tokens.rs#pub async fn refresh_if_expired<S>(, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/types.rs#pub(super) struct PendingAuthorization {, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/mod.rs#pub mod supervisor;, README.md#Enable the `tools` feature to expose each server tool as a)
  • Added — mcp.json host-store extension (parse_with / render_declared): `parse_with` reads `allowedTools`, `disallowedTools` and `timeoutSecs`, carries host-registered fields verbatim in `Declared::host_fields`, and under `lenient` drops refused entries into `ParseReport::rejected` (including duplicate keys naming one server after trimming) instead of refusing the document; an unreadable root is still refused. `render_declared` writes declarations back sorted by name, emits extension and host fields when set, and never emits credentials. Strict `parse` continues to refuse the extension fields. (crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/document.rs#fn parse_servers(doc: &Value) -> std::result::Result<Vec<Declared>, String> {, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/document.rs#pub fn parse(doc: &Value) -> Result<Vec<Declared>> {, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/document.rs#fn parse_entry(name: &str, entry: &Map<String, Value>) -> std::result::Result<De, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/types.rs#pub struct Declared {, README.md#Enable the `tools` feature to expose each server tool as a)
  • Modified — Contract version bump to 1.3 and re-export surface: `CONTRACT_VERSION` moves to (1, 3), documented as adding the structured call outcome and the credential-store error name; the new outcome types and `OAuthBundle` are re-exported from the tinymcp and tinymcp-bus crate roots and pinned by an integration test. (crates/tinymcp-bus/src/version/mod_tests.rs#fn the_contract_binds_to_itself() {, crates/tinymcp-bus/src/version/mod_tests.rs#use super::{CONTRACT_VERSION, binds, is_compatible};, crates/tinymcp/src/lib.rs#pub use tinymcp_bus::{, crates/tinymcp-bus/src/agent_tools/mod.rs#mod types;, crates/tinymcp-bus/src/lib.rs#pub mod transport;)

Tests

  • unit — Pins the answered and failed `McpCallOutcome` wire forms, round-trips them, asserts a plain error carries no authorization signal, and verifies `from_metadata` returns None for wrong-kind, non-object or non-boolean-ok metadata.: Adequate and behaviorally specific (crates/tinymcp-bus/src/agent_tools/mod_tests.rs#fn effects_serialize_in_snake_case() {, crates/tinymcp-bus/src/agent_tools/mod_tests.rs#fn effects_serialize_in_snake_case() {)
  • unit — Verifies decoding rejects payloads the constructors never produce: an answered outcome with an error, a failed outcome without one, missing or wrong `kind`.: Adequate (crates/tinymcp-bus/src/agent_tools/mod_tests.rs#fn effects_serialize_in_snake_case() {)
  • integration — OAuth flow refresh tests against a local token endpoint: unguarded refresh works and is skipped when not due, the guarded flow refuses a loopback token endpoint and an https endpoint on an internal address sending zero requests, an unreadable bundle is reported, the public OAuthBundle wire form round-trips and its Debug hides secrets, and a refresh that a newer sign-in superseded is dropped without overwriting.: Adequate and behaviorally specific (crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/flow.rs#impl OAuthFlow {, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/types.rs#pub(super) struct PendingAuthorization {, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/tokens.rs#pub async fn refresh_if_expired<S>()
  • unit — `with_secrets` redacts extra secrets typed and URL-encoded, joins configured secrets sorted longest-first so a containing secret is replaced whole, and a short extra secret is redacted inside larger text without eating neighboring keys.: Adequate (crates/tinymcp/src/tools/scrub_tests.rs#fn scrub_value_keeps_both_entries_when_keys_collide_after_redaction() {)
  • integration — Pins the crate-root import paths a host uses for `McpAuthChallenge`, `McpCallOutcome`, `McpCallError`, `MCP_CALL_RESULT_KIND` and `CONTRACT_VERSION`.: Adequate (crates/tinymcp/src/lib.rs#pub use tinymcp_bus::{)

Findings

  • medium · security · Make supersession checking atomic with persistence — This newly exposed refresh path delegates to `exchange_refresh`, which checks whether the stored bundle was superseded and then persists in separate operations. A concurrent sign-i (crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/flow\.rs:383)
  • medium · tests · Supersession check remains a non-atomic read before persist — Still a check-then-act window: `superseded` re-reads the bundle, and `persist` writes afterwards, so a sign-in stored between the two is still overwritten. The new doc comment ackn (crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/tokens\.rs:157)

Resolved this pass

  • Validate outcome invariants after deserialization
  • Enforce the outcome discriminator during deserialization
  • Preserve caller identities in call outcomes
  • Preserve the existing crate-root re-exports
  • Preserve the existing crate-root re-exports
  • Do not derive Debug for credential bundles
  • Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation
  • Validate outcome invariants after deserialization
  • Enforce the outcome discriminator during deserialization
  • Preserve caller identities in call outcomes
  • Preserve legitimate identifier punctuation
  • Reject bundles without a refresh token before exchanging
  • Validate the OAuth flag when deserializing errors
  • Make supersession checking atomic with persistence
  • Also scrub form-encoded variants of extra secrets
  • Preserve the existing crate-root re-exports
  • Do not derive Debug for credential bundles
  • Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation
  • Validate outcome invariants after deserialization
  • Enforce the outcome discriminator during deserialization
  • Preserve caller identities in call outcomes
  • Preserve legitimate identifier punctuation
  • Reject bundles without a refresh token before exchanging
  • Validate the OAuth flag when deserializing errors
  • Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation
  • Also scrub form-encoded variants of extra secrets
  • Preserve the existing crate-root re-exports
  • Do not derive Debug for credential bundles
  • Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation
  • Validate outcome invariants after deserialization
  • Enforce the outcome discriminator during deserialization
  • Preserve caller identities in call outcomes
  • Preserve legitimate identifier punctuation
  • Reject bundles without a refresh token before exchanging
  • Validate the OAuth flag when deserializing errors
  • Do not derive Debug for credential bundles
  • Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation
  • Make supersession checking atomic with persistence
  • Also scrub form-encoded variants of extra secrets

Before merge

None.

How this fits together

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critique

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 5 files; 0 findings. (9 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._

security

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Positive: OAuthBundle's hand-written Debug redacts the refresh token and client secret, pinned by a test asserting the secrets never appear in debug output.
  • Positive: The guarded flow sends nothing to a refused token endpoint and never overwrites a newer sign-in stored while a refresh waited, with tests asserting zero requests and the stale token preserved.
  • Lane summary: The OAuth client-name customization and guarded refresh API are implemented without introducing a new security issue. The change is safe to merge. (1 finding added by a second pass) 1 file was not security-reviewed: README.md (prose or tabular data). _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._
  • Evidence: crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/flow\.rs — Make supersession checking atomic with persistence

tests

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: This revision fixes the earlier findings: outcome decoding now enforces the kind and the ok/error invariant, McpCallError rejects an OAuth advert without a 401, OAuthBundle and SecretScrubber have redacting Debug impls, extra secrets get their URL-encoded variants scrubbed, `required_string_arg` keeps legitimate punctuation with tests, `due_refresh` refuses bundles without a refresh token, and the crate-root re-exports are pinned by an integration test. The refresh path's supersession check is still a read-then-persist race the code only narrows; that finding stands. (1 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._
  • Evidence: crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/tokens\.rs — Supersession check remains a non-atomic read before persist

commits

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: The revision addresses all previously raised findings: the crate-root re-exports are pinned by a test, OAuthBundle and SecretScrubber have redacting Debug implementations, outcome decoding enforces the kind and ok/error invariants, caller identities survive unscrubbed, identifier stripping preserves `_` and legitimate punctuation, refreshes without a refresh token send nothing, the OAuth flag is validated on deserialize, superseded refreshes are dropped, and extra secrets are redacted URL-encoded. The new incremental work (OAuthFlow::refresh with the public-endpoint guard, with_client_name, README updates) is consistent with its tests and docs. The pull request looks ready to merge. _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._

e2e

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: No end-to-end harness in this repository: no e2e test files and no e2e workflow.
Evidence and run details
  • Models: gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
  • Spend: $0.009282
  • Tokens: 280941 input · 14681 output · 11477 cached · 0 embedding
Head State Pass summary
bae14c4a06ef changes requested 15 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1791286956)
8fb9af98bd56 changes requested 13 active finding(s), 40 resolved finding(s) (at 1791287241)
edcb97200be9 changes requested 5 active finding(s), 128 resolved finding(s) (at 1791289596)
c9e542e82468 ready for maintainer review 2 active finding(s), 81 resolved finding(s) (at 1791290659)
8b92a99c8e59 ready for maintainer review 2 active finding(s), 39 resolved finding(s) (at 1791291356)

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Walkthrough

This change adds structured metadata for MCP bridge-call outcomes, host-aware configuration parsing and rendering, and OAuth refresh through a flow that can recheck token endpoints. It also adds argument-name normalization and support for scrubbing host-provided secrets.

Changes

Bridge Call Outcomes and Scrubbing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Outcome contract and public exports
crates/tinymcp-bus/src/agent_tools/*, crates/tinymcp-bus/src/lib.rs, crates/tinymcp-bus/src/version/*, crates/tinymcp/src/lib.rs, crates/tinymcp-bus/README.md, ROADMAP.md
The bus adds serializable McpCallOutcome and McpCallError types and exports them with the mcp_call metadata kind. The contract version changes to 1.3, with updated version tests and documentation.
Bridge outcome and secret handling
crates/tinymcp/src/tools/bridge*, crates/tinymcp/src/tools/mod.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/tools/scrub*, README.md
The bridge attaches outcome metadata to results, normalizes server and tool arguments, and classifies call failures. SecretScrubber::with_secrets adds host-provided values and URL-encoded forms to the scrub list. Tests cover outcomes, normalization, and scrubbing.

Host-Managed Configuration Documents

Layer / File(s) Summary
Declaration shape and host-aware parsing
crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/types.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/document.rs
Declarations add allowed and disallowed tool lists, an optional timeout, and registered host fields. parse_with supports extension fields and optional lenient rejection, while the existing parse remains strict.
Declaration rendering and validation
crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/document.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/mod.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/config_doc/mod_parse_with_tests.rs, README.md
render_declared emits sorted declarations, including configured fields. Tests cover parsing, rejection, and render/readback behavior; the documentation describes the host-managed APIs.

OAuth Bundle and Guarded Refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
OAuth bundle and refresh helpers
crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/types.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/tokens.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/mod.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/mod.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/mod_refresh_tests.rs
OAuthBundle and its fields become public. Refresh eligibility and token exchange move into separate helpers, with tests for bundle serialization and stored-bundle handling.
OAuthFlow refresh and endpoint checks
crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/flow.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/mod_tests.rs, crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/mod_refresh_tests.rs
OAuthFlow::refresh checks whether refresh is due and selects a guarded token-endpoint client when public-endpoint enforcement is enabled. Tests cover refresh success, endpoint rejection, and error cases.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant McpCallTool
  participant Registry
  participant ToolResult
  McpCallTool->>Registry: Call the named server and tool
  Registry-->>McpCallTool: Return result or classified error
  McpCallTool->>ToolResult: Attach outcome metadata
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8fb9a

The new OAuth refresh can roll back a fresh sign-in if both happen at the same time. Short host-supplied secrets may still appear in text shown to the model. Fix both before merging. The documentation about call outcomes also needs a small correction.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8fb9a

The new host-secret redaction API does not reliably remove short credentials embedded in returned text. Authentication refresh gains stronger endpoint protection, but that protection depends on which refresh path the host uses. The exposure is conditional on host integration and the credentials involved; production access-control boundaries remain unresolved.

Retained concerns

  • High · security · observed: The new explicit host-secret redaction API inherits a short-secret bypass. with_secrets populates secrets but not strict; a registered value shorter than eight bytes can remain intact when embedded beside alphanumeric or underscore characters. scrub_result uses this matching policy for returned text, JSON strings, and formatted Markdown. A server already given the credential can therefore echo it through the intended output-protection boundary. The algorithm existed at the base; this PR adds the host-secret API carrying the incomplete guarantee. Actual host adoption and credential privileges are not established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported redaction attack scope is output carrying a short credential that a host explicitly registers and that the responding server already knows. Exploitation requires control of the returned text and a host forwarding the scrubbed result to a model or another reader. Wider account compromise depends on that credential's authority; repository evidence does not establish automatic exposure of every OAuth bundle or cross-tenant access.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The retained finding is supported by the exact matching conditions: with_secrets does not mark supplied credentials strict, and short non-strict values require word boundaries. A hostile echo can preserve such a credential inside a larger word or underscore-delimited string. Longer values and short standalone tokens are counterexamples where replacement works; the added host-secret tests exercise longer values and do not disprove this path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Host approval and registry tool restrictions remain separate from server response classification. The new unauthorized and advertises_oauth fields describe authentication responses; they do not grant permission. The library documents outcome metadata as host-only, but downstream host handling is not supplied and cannot be assumed safe solely from the discriminator.
  • observed — With public-endpoint policy enabled, OAuthFlow::refresh validates HTTPS and resolved addresses, pins the request client to the checked addresses, and disables redirects before posting credentials. Automatic connection refresh still calls refresh_if_expired through a client that does not revalidate the stored endpoint. That connection path is unchanged from the full PR base, so the existing policy-enforcement gap is not attributed to this PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — OAuth reports refresh success only after persistence completes and propagates exchange, parsing, and store errors. The host-store interface specifies whole-map replacement but does not specify tenant authorization, conditional writes, cancellation guarantees, or refresh ownership. Production implementations are needed to resolve those security-relevant guarantees.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Treat explicitly supplied secrets as strict matches in returned text and JSON string values, including their encoded spellings, while retaining a deliberate separate policy for structural object keys.
  • proposed — For deployments requiring public-only OAuth endpoints, apply the guarded flow refresh method to every automatic refresh path. Define per-server refresh ownership and recovery after remote token rotation succeeds but local persistence fails, alongside tenant authorization requirements for host credential stores.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning #40’s bus outcome types, success and registry-error metadata, guarded OAuth refresh, public OAuthBundle, config-document extensions, SecretScrubber::with_secrets, and related tests are represented… When arguments is missing after server and tool are parsed, return an error result with an INVALID_ARGUMENTS outcome in its metadata. Add a test for this case.
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The change to required_string_arg also strips Markdown fence characters and trailing punctuation from server and tool identifiers. This changes bridge input behavior independently of #40’s structure… Remove the identifier-normalization behavior from this PR, or track and review it as a separate change.
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#40’s bus outcome types, success and registry-error metadata, guarded OAuth refresh, public OAuthBundle, config-document extensions, SecretScrubber::with_secrets, and related tests are represented in the change. The PR reports the requested formatting, Clippy, test, coverage, and host-build checks as passing. However, McpCallTool::execute_with_options parses server and tool, then returns an Err when arguments is missing. It attaches no McpCallOutcome in that case. #40 requires outcome metadata on errors once the server and tool are known.

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Comment thread crates/tinymcp/src/lib.rs
RegistryPagination, RegistryServerDetail, RegistryServerSummary, SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS,
SearchCuration, ServerDetail, ServerStatus, Transport, config, is_compatible, names, sanitize,
version,
LATEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION, MAX_DESCRIPTION_BYTES, MAX_LIST_LIMIT, MAX_TITLE_BYTES,

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priority high tests likely

Preserve the existing crate-root re-exports

Still stands from the earlier review: McpAuthChallenge was dropped from the crate-root tinymcp_bus re-export list when this block was rewritten for the new outcome types, and it does not appear under registry::oauth either. That is a breaking removal of a public path this pull request did not have to make. The new items are correctly re-exported; only the dropped name remains outstanding.

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Fixed in 9b90a77: McpAuthChallenge is back in the crate-root re-exports; tests/public_reexports.rs pins it.

@@ -33,21 +33,25 @@ pub(super) struct PendingAuthorization {

/// The bookkeeping needed to mint a new access token without another sign-in.

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priority medium tests confident

Do not derive Debug for credential bundles

Making OAuthBundle public made this worse than when it was pub(super): the type is now reachable by hosts and still derives Debug while holding refresh_token and client_secret. The doc comment's "never log or display it" is a claim, not a defence — any {:?} of a value holding a bundle, including through other structs that contain one, prints both secrets. Implement Debug manually redacting those fields. The companion finding "Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation" is the same defect and is kept here rather than duplicated.

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Fixed in e62c5fa: manual Debug redacts refresh_token and client_secret; test covers {:?} and {:#?}.

/// its own store can read the bundle it holds — for an expiry it shows, or to
/// migrate one — without restating its shape. It holds a client secret and a
/// refresh token: never log or display it.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]

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priority medium tests confident

Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation

Kept from the earlier review for the same reason as "Do not derive Debug for credential bundles": the derived Debug prints refresh_token and client_secret verbatim, and the type is now part of the public API. One manual Debug implementation fixes both.

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Fixed in e62c5fa (same manual Debug).

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/// `ok` says whether the server answered the call. A tool that answered with
/// its own error result still has `ok: true`: the server was reached and the
/// failure is the tool's, reported in the result itself.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]

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priority medium tests likely

Validate outcome invariants after deserialization

Still stands from the earlier review: Deserialize accepts shapes the constructors never produce — ok: true with a non-None error, or ok: false with error: null — since error is #[serde(default)] and nothing checks the pairing. The tests pin the constructors' wire forms but never the rejection of an inconsistent one, so a host decoding a malformed payload gets an outcome whose ok and error disagree.

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Fixed in 9d5399f: decode now rejects ok:true with an error and ok:false without one. Serialized shape unchanged; tests cover both.

/// failure is the tool's, reported in the result itself.
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/// Always [`MCP_CALL_RESULT_KIND`].

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priority medium tests likely

Enforce the outcome discriminator during deserialization

Still stands from the earlier review: from_metadata gates on kind, but the derived Deserialize happily builds an McpCallOutcome whose kind is any string. A host that deserializes the metadata directly — the public path the type now offers — gets a struct claiming kind is "always MCP_CALL_RESULT_KIND" when it is not. Reject unknown kinds in a custom Deserialize or a private deserialization helper.

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Fixed in 9d5399f: decode rejects a missing or wrong kind; from_metadata relies on it. Serialized shape unchanged.

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Comment thread crates/tinymcp/src/tools/bridge.rs Outdated
let (mut result, outcome) = match self.registry.call_tool(&server, &tool, arguments).await {
Ok(result) => (
result.rendered,
McpCallOutcome::answered(scrubber.scrub(&server), scrubber.scrub(&tool)),

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priority medium tests likely

Preserve caller identities in call outcomes

Still stands from the earlier review: the outcome's server and tool go through scrubber.scrub, which is built from that server's own credential values. If a credential value happens to appear in (or equal) the name the caller typed, the metering identity the host reads is redacted rather than the caller's name — the outcome is host-only metadata, so the secret cannot leak through it and it does not need scrubbing at all.

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Fixed in 586c4e2: outcome server/tool are the caller's names, unscrubbed. The outcome is host-only metadata, never rendered; the debug log still scrubs. Test uses a tool named like a secret.

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Comment thread crates/tinymcp/src/tools/bridge.rs Outdated
.ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("missing required `{key}`"))?;
Ok(value.to_string())
.ok_or_else(missing)?;
let cleaned = value

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priority medium tests uncertain

Preserve legitimate identifier punctuation

Still stands from the earlier review: the trailing strip removes ., ,, ;, :, ! unconditionally, so a caller-named tool that legitimately ends in one of those (the outcome doc says names go through "as the caller named it") is silently renamed before the call, and the outcome reports the mangled name. The doc comment's claim that "a server or tool name never starts or ends with one" is asserted by the author, not pinned by a test over the real name spaces. Strip only fence runs (backticks, *, _), which is what the markdown-wrapping problem actually is.

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Fixed in c1e3b14: only backticks and asterisks are stripped from either end, and sentence punctuation only when it follows one. _ and . are kept; tests cover get_data_, __init, init, docs, docs., v1.2.

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Review comments at @crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/flow.rs:
- Line 354: Update the refresh flow around due_refresh so exchange_refresh
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server_id. Coordinate refresh and sign-in writes per server_id or conditionally
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where
S: OAuthCredentialStore + ?Sized,
{
let Some(bundle) = due_refresh(store, server_id).await? else {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Prevent an in-flight refresh from replacing a newer sign-in.

If complete stores a new sign-in while refresh waits for the token endpoint, exchange_refresh later calls persist with the earlier bundle. persist replaces both Authorization and __oauth__ for the same server_id. The refresh can therefore restore the old credentials after the new sign-in succeeds. Coordinate refresh and sign-in writes per server_id, or conditionally commit the refresh only if the selected bundle is still current.

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Review comment at @crates/tinymcp/src/registry/oauth/flow.rs at line 354:
Update the refresh flow around due_refresh so exchange_refresh cannot persist a
stale bundle after complete stores a newer sign-in for the same server_id.
Coordinate refresh and sign-in writes per server_id or conditionally commit the
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Valid, partly. Fixed in 05a94ad: exchange_refresh re-reads the stored bundle before persisting and drops the refresh if it no longer matches the one it started from (test included). Not atomic: OAuthCredentialStore has no compare-and-swap, so a write landing between that check and persist can still lose. Closing that needs a trait change, out of scope for this PR.

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@oxoxDev Thanks for the clarification. The bundle re-read mitigates the stale refresh overwrite, but the check-to-write race remains. I agree that a trait change can stay outside this PR.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for atomic conditional credential writes through OAuthCredentialStore?


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where
S: OAuthCredentialStore + ?Sized,
{
let refresh_token = bundle.refresh_token.as_deref().unwrap_or_default();

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priority high critique likely

Reject bundles without a refresh token before exchanging

exchange_refresh now substitutes an empty string when bundle.refresh_token is None (or otherwise absent). Although due_refresh filters missing and whitespace-only tokens, exchange_refresh is a separate pub(super) function and can be called with an invalid bundle; it will then issue a refresh request containing refresh_token= instead of returning without making the request. Preserve the non-empty-token invariant at this boundary rather than relying on the caller.

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Fixed in c9e542e: exchange_refresh returns without a request when the refresh token is missing or blank; test added.

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/// Why an MCP call failed, classified for a host.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]

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priority medium critique confident

Validate the OAuth flag when deserializing errors

McpCallError derives Deserialize directly, so a payload such as { "code": "x", "unauthorized": false, "advertises_oauth": true } is accepted even though the field documentation says advertises_oauth is always false when unauthorized is false. McpCallOutcome also accepts this invalid nested error, so decoded outcomes do not satisfy the documented invariant. Deserialize through a wire type and reject this combination, or otherwise validate the nested error before constructing the public type.

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Fixed in 60db2d0: McpCallError decodes through a wire type and rejects advertises_oauth without unauthorized; nested in McpCallOutcome too. Serialized shape unchanged.

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Resolved — the reply explains why it is not a problem (advisory), as of c9e542e.

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/// way. Each is matched as typed and URL-encoded, anywhere in the text even
/// when short; blank values are skipped.
#[must_use]
pub fn with_secrets(mut self, secrets: impl IntoIterator<Item = String>) -> Self {

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priority medium critique confident

Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation

SecretScrubber still derives Debug, which prints both its secrets and strict fields. This new public API lets callers add arbitrary credentials to those fields, so logging or formatting the scrubber can disclose the injected plaintext and URL-encoded values. Remove the derived debug implementation or provide a custom implementation that omits secret contents.

[RULE] secret-disclosure ·

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Fixed in 2719f88: manual Debug prints only counts.

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Resolved — the reply explains why it is not a problem (advisory), as of 8b92a99.

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self.strict.push(encoded.clone());
self.secrets.push(encoded);
}
self.strict.push(secret.to_string());

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priority medium security confident

Do not derive Debug for credential bundles

This newly supported secret-injection path stores caller-provided credentials in SecretScrubber, whose public Debug implementation still prints the secrets field. Any debug formatting of the scrubber can therefore disclose these credentials. Remove the Debug derive from the credential-bearing type or implement a redacting Debug formatter.

[RULE] secret-disclosure ·

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Fixed in 2719f88: same manual Debug.

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Resolved — the reply explains why it is not a problem (advisory), as of c9e542e.

If this is wrong, reopen the conversation and say so; the finding will be re-raised on the next push if it still reproduces.

self.strict.push(encoded.clone());
self.secrets.push(encoded);
}
self.strict.push(secret.to_string());

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priority medium security confident

Redact secrets from the public Debug implementation

The injected values are retained in a type with a derived public Debug implementation, so formatting that value exposes the raw credentials. The debug representation must redact both configured and injected secrets rather than delegating to the derived field formatter.

[RULE] secret-disclosure ·

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The previously-blocking findings are resolved. Clearing the changes request.

             $0.0140 · 458,464 in / 31,244 out · 53,702 cached (12%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
critique:    $0.0029 · 172,006 in / 13,048 out · 28,711 cached (17%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
security:    $0.0032 · 174,659 in / 9,869 out  · 24,991 cached (14%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0024 · 34,322 in  / 1,909 out  · 0 cached (0%)       · glm-5.3-flash
description: $0.0025 · 34,732 in  / 3,081 out  · 0 cached (0%)       · glm-5.3-flash

tokens.refresh_token.clone_from(&bundle.refresh_token);
}

if superseded(store, server_id, bundle).await? {

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priority medium critique confident

Make supersession checking atomic with persistence

This check only observes the bundle before persist runs. A newer sign-in can complete after superseded loads the credentials but before persist loads and writes them, allowing the stale refresh response to overwrite the sign-in's newer credentials. The comment acknowledges that the window is narrowed rather than closed, but this still violates the stated purpose of dropping refreshes superseded by a sign-in; use a store operation that compares the original bundle and writes conditionally, or otherwise serialize the check and write.

[RULE] non-atomic-check-then-write ·

if secret.is_empty() {
continue;
}
let encoded = urlencoding::encode(secret).into_owned();

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priority medium critique confident

Also scrub form-encoded variants of extra secrets

A caller-supplied secret containing spaces is stored in its raw form and with %20, but not with the + representation used by application/x-www-form-urlencoded query strings. For example, with_secrets(["host token".to_string()]) will not redact host+token, even though the documentation promises URL-encoded matching and the existing endpoint handling explicitly preserves + spellings. Add the form-encoded variant for extra secrets as well.

[RULE] complete-url-encoding ·

OAuthFlow::with_client_name sets the client_name sent during dynamic registration, which the authorization server shows on its consent screen. DEFAULT_CLIENT_NAME (TinyMCP) stays the default; a blank name keeps it.

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tinysweeper found nothing blocking. Approving.

             $0.0093 · 280,941 in / 14,681 out · 11,477 cached (4%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
critique:    $0.0028 · 54,095 in  / 5,317 out  · 2,142 cached (4%)  · gpt-5.6-luna
security:    $0.0058 · 108,647 in / 3,826 out  · 9,271 cached (9%)  · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0004 · 36,291 in  / 864 out    · 64 cached (0%)     · glm-5.3-flash
description: $0.0001 · 36,651 in  / 685 out    · 0 cached (0%)      · glm-5.3-flash

};
let guarded_http = self.token_client(&bundle.token_endpoint).await?;
let http = guarded_http.as_ref().unwrap_or(&self.http);
exchange_refresh(store, http, server_id, &bundle).await

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priority medium security confident

Make supersession checking atomic with persistence

This newly exposed refresh path delegates to exchange_refresh, which checks whether the stored bundle was superseded and then persists in separate operations. A concurrent sign-in can occur between those operations, allowing the older refresh result to overwrite the newer credentials and disrupt the user's authenticated session. The credential store needs a compare-and-swap or equivalent atomic conditional update for the supersession check and persistence.

[RULE] atomic-persistence ·

///
/// A store offers no compare-and-swap, so this narrows the window rather than
/// closing it.
async fn superseded<S>(store: &S, server_id: &str, bundle: &OAuthBundle) -> Result<bool>

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priority medium tests likely

Supersession check remains a non-atomic read before persist

Still a check-then-act window: superseded re-reads the bundle, and persist writes afterwards, so a sign-in stored between the two is still overwritten. The new doc comment acknowledges this and frames it as narrowing, which is fair, but the invariant a host would want — a newer sign-in's token is never clobbered by a racing refresh — is not guaranteed, and the comment in the diff is the author's claim rather than something a test can pin for the race window itself. If the store interface cannot offer compare-and-swap, consider making persist take the bundle it read and having stores that can do a conditional write; otherwise document the residual window on the public API, not just the private helper.

[RULE] check-then-act-race ·

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oxoxDev merged commit ed44f2b into tinyhumansai:main Oct 6, 2026
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